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Stephen R. Covey Quotes
«Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Adversity,
Challenge,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
adversity, Challenges, develop, lifting, muscles, opposition, oppositions, overcoming, physical, such as, weights
«To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
cram, crammed, cramming, crams, day in and day out, focus, focus on, get by, graded, grades, grade school, grading, mastery, subjects, technique, The Technique, the Techniques
«It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
apologize, apologized, apologizes, apologizing, a great deal, deal, fundamental, fundamental principle, genuinely, great deal, pity, possess, principles, quickly, security, values
«Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Disillusionment
| Keywords:
affects, bury, come forth, cumulative, cynicism, disappointment, disillusionment, disproportionate, embodiments, high quality, illnesses, mentality, minor, overreaction, provocation, provocations, psychosomatic, rage, reincarnation, repress, repressed, repressing, resentment, suppressed, The Embodiment, transcending, uglier, unexpressed
«In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
analysis, communicates, eloquently, in the last analysis
«People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
abundance, achievements, adds, centered, detract, detracting, detracts, genuinely, good fortune, in terms of, mentality, recognition, scarcities, scarcity, successes, well-being
«Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.»
«The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
core, duplicity, ethic, Human Relations, human relationship, ingredient, interdependence, put into action, relations, superficial, sustain, techniques, The Foundation, The Technique, the Techniques
«Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
anchorage, basic, emotional, esteem, identities, identity, personal identity, Personal self, represents, self esteem